The Portland daily press., 1887-08-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Belva Lockwood has returned to her law
Office at Washington after short vacation.
She says she will not be candidate for
President in 1883 if Mrs. Cleveland will ac-
cept the nomination.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has engaged to
furnish series of articles on topics of es-
pecial interest to women to papers in the
United States and Canada. This is spoken
OF as her new vocation" but Mrs. Beecher
has written great deal for the press, es-
pecially within dozen years.
General S. b. Buckner, confident of tri-
nmph, left Kentucky for White Sulphur
Springs, w. Va, Immediately after the cleo
ton to rejoin his wife and baby He had
worked hard all through the campaign, but
had found time to write daily to his wife,
who takes an interest in his political adj
vancement at least equal to his own. She
has been at White Sulphur Springs for
month or more, seeking to regain her health
so as to be on hand at her husbands expect
ed Inauguration on Aug. 80, as she and the
ppaDy were present at his nomination in the
State convention.
Nearly all the common marbles which drag
down the pockets of the boys of our land are
made in Obsterstein, Germany. They are
made from the refuse of the agate and stone
quarries in that neighborhood. The stone is
broken into small cubes by blows of a light
hammer. These small blocks of stone are
thrown by the shoyelful into the hopper of a
small mill, formed Of bed stone, having its
surface grooved with concentrated burrows
above these is the runner" which is made
of hard wood, having level face on its low
er surface. The upper block is made to re-
yolve rapidly, water being delivered upon
the grooves of the bed stone where the mar
bles are being rounded 1t takes about ff-
teen minutes to finish bushel of good mar
bles, ready for swapping" One mill will
turn out 10000 marbles per week. The very
hardest Crackers" as the boys call them.
are made by slower process, somewhat
analogous, however, to the other.
George Essex Montifex Drummond, grand
son of the Earl of Perth and Melfort, and
heir to the title, died in penury at New York
last week and was buried Saturday, with
Episcopal rites, in Trinity church yard. Lord
George was born in 1856, married his grand
mothers companion, Eliza Harrison, who
was five years older than himself, in 1871,
and Immediately afterward took steerage
passage to this country with his wife, reach
ing Castle Garden in July, 1871. Then bez
gan life of misery and privation. -r-f ord
90 ''t rSSsss1d child, his
euuca'ion naa Deen Scanl and he could
-.sssSs awTIs5 ms own name. He became a
porter in New York commi ssion house,
and when his employers failure threw him
out of work, he moved TO Brookhaven L. l.
where he was moderately prosperous as a
fisherman and duck shooter His first child,
boy. was boon at Brookhaven, but only
lived short time. Lord George then drift
ed about from one employment to another.
He was successfully packer for whole
sale clothing firm, gateman on the elevated
railroad, clerk in a clothing house and a
compositor on New York newspaper. His
grandfather and other relatives made him
repeated offers of reinstatement and asss-
lance, if he would discard his wife; but this
he always refused to do. He leaves, beside
his widow, a little girl eight years old, who
lives with her mother in miserable tene-
ment. The present Earl of Perth and Mel
fort is over SO years old and ON his death the
earldom becomes extinct.